One friend of mine has problem with access to the media storage on my LMCE core from Windows PC and MAC. He has 16 HDD 250GB each in RAID5. The storage is mounted in /mnt/devices/<Storage ID>.

As I understand both should be used Samba. On Windows PC 8TB storage is shown as 250GB (the size of one HDD in the RAID). But at least the media storage is visible for Windows PC. On MAC it's also visible but each directory is shown as shortcut and not accessible at all.

When I access my LMCE core via Samba with my Mac, I have a similar issue. But only with my Leopard machine. The additional drives show up as shortcuts which result in an error when clicked. I can, however, open them all with my Mac running Tiger.

So i have written it off as another one of the numerous problems that the Leopard upgrade installed on my Mac. maybe we will be luckier with 10.5.3

I would think it is extremely unlikely that you would want to access those drives in any way if they are showing up as individual drives! It suggests that it is accessing them directly as devices (why SAMBA would present them at all as such is beyond me!) rather than through the RAID driver's device file - very good chance you could screw up the RAID striping and/or parity and corrupt the data - perhaps that's why they are inaccessible in one version?

Finally, I understand what is the problem. The problem is that only system HDD (250GB) is accessible via Samba. The 8TB storage is mounted into /mnt/device/174 and isn't showed on the first level directories. Does somebody knows how to solve that?

I've cheated with sambaon a reboot, the core will re-write the samba.conf files so editing them will need some extra work i've not looked at yet.Soi went into /home/public/data/ and then created a sybolic link to the path i wanted to access (its a usb external drive)